★★★★★
Part of the young Nashville cabal that includes Kacey Musgraves and unstoppable hit writer Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark is further proof of commercial country's sea change. Her debut is all airtight craftsmanship, sly wit and precise detailing that treats mainstream style like artisanal fast food. The best songs involve drugs ("Get High," "Take a Little Pill") and vengeful ladies with guns ("Stripes," "Crazy Women"), and even her schmaltz-flirting is impressive ("Hold My Hand")...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Prior to the 2013 release of 12 Stories, Brandy Clark was known primarily as a songwriter, and a good one too. She had hits with Miranda Lambert ("Mama's Broken Heart"), LeAnn Rimes ("Crazy Women"), the Band Perry ("Better Dig Two"), and Kacey Musgraves ("Follow Your Arrow"), and 12 Stories reflects some of the same skills that brought her to the upper reaches of the charts...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-01-20
★★★★★
For anyone who remembers Country music more for the stories the best songs of the genre have often created than songs made just for the hooks, they're sure to find something to like with 12 Stories, the debut album from Brandy Clark. One of the most "buzz worthy" of today's songwriters, the thirty something Clark tells stories which manage to be at times dramatic, funny, heartfelt and down right honest...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-10-22
★★★★★
"The same stories unfold all over town," Brandy Clark sings on "Illegitimate Children," towards the end of her debut record. Those "same stories" -- tales of quotidian struggle and unglamorous normalcy -- are the types of narratives Clark is most interested in telling on 12 Stories, her first full-length release after a near decade of songwriting in Nashville. The simplicity in the title 12 Stories, a reference, perhaps, to J.D...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-10-18
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